The Movie Timeline - be obsessive, be very obsessive
Thursday 8th August: A child is born. (Gatlin, Nebraska - Children of the Corn)
Tuesday 13th August: Linda Wilken, mother of Amelia Donaghy, born. (Salem, MA - The Bone Collector)
Sunday 18th August: A child is born. (Gatlin, Nebraska - Children of the Corn)
Sunday 1st September: Robert is born. (New York City, New York - Kick-Ass 2)
Monday 9th September: A child is born. (Gatlin, Nebraska - Children of the Corn)
Friday 13th September: Amon Goeth executed for war crimes in Poland. (Schindler's List)
Tuesday 17th September: A child is born. (Gatlin, Nebraska - Children of the Corn)
October: Gordie Lachance is born - Chris Chambers, Teddy Duchamp and Vern Tessio are born within months. (Castle Rock, Maine - Stand By Me)
Friday 11th October: A child is born. (Gatlin, Nebraska - Children of the Corn)
Tuesday 5th November: Bucky "Mr Ice" Bleichert takes on his future partner, Lee "Mr Fire" Blanchard in a charity boxing match; Bleichert takes a dive in the 8th round. (Los Angeles, Ca - The Black Dahlia)
Sunday 24th November: Ted Bundy is born. (Burlington, Vermont - Halloween: Resurrection)
Sunday 22nd December: Pamela Courson is born. (Weed, California - The Doors)
Sunday 22nd December: Elinor, who later took the last name Lindstrom, is born. (Lars and the Real Girl)
Thursday 26th December: Bugsy Siegel opens The Pink Flamingo Hotel & Casino. (Las Vegas, Nevada - Bugsy)
Benjamin L. Willard is assigned to U.S. Sector Command, G-1 (Plans). (West Berlin, Germany - Apocalypse Now)
Howard Hughes test-flights the Blue Spruce. (The Aviator)
Elizabeth Short is found brutally murdered & bizarrely mutilated; Emmett Linscott family is implicated. (Los Angeles, Ca - The Black Dahlia)
Bob Silver and Charlotte conceive Carl. (Great Britain - The Boat That Rocked)
Brighton Rock. (Brighton Rock)
Philadelphia Mass Turbulence, related to 'symmetrical bookstacking'. (Philadelphia, PA - Ghostbusters)
Tom Hagen becomes consigliere to Don Corleone; Michael Corleone marries Apollonia in Sicily, who dies very soon after. (The Godfather)
The U.S. Government shanghais Dr. Henry Jones, Jr. and a number of other scientists to examine the the wreckage of an alien spacecraft and the remains of its pilot. (Area 51 - Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull)
Indy first visits Roswell. (Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull)
"Smiler" Grogan robs a tuna factory of $350,000 and buries the money under the big W at Rosita Beach State Park. (Santa Rosita, CA - It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World)
Jedidiah Sawyer is born to Verna and Drayton Sawyer, who may be brother and sister. (Texas - Leatherface)
A little girl named Susan and her mom meet the real Kris Kringle. They learn to believe. (New York, New York - Miracle on 34th Street)
Wine is made. (Red 2)
Andy Dufresne begins sentence at Shawshank for the murder of his wife. (The Shawshank Redemption)
The Grand Hotel hosts a graduation prom. (Straits of Mackinac - Somewhere In Time)
Oliver is born. (Los Angeles, California - This Is 40)
Alice is born. (The Ward)
Roger Rabbit is framed. (Who Framed Roger Rabbit)
Gregory Balestrero is born. (New York City, New York - The Wrong Man)
The Cold War begins. (X-Men: Days of Future Past)
Wednesday 15th January: A year and a half after the end of WWII the body of Elizabeth Short (aka Black Dahlia) was found cut in half. (Los Angeles, California - The Black Dahlia)
Tuesday 21st January: Rick and Evy O'Connell arrive in Shanghai on Chinese New Year Eve to visit Evy's brother at his nightclub "Imhotep's" and to deliver the Eye of Shangri-La to the Chinese Musuem of History the following day. (The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor)
Tuesday 15th April: Jackie Robinson becomes the first African-American player in Major League Baseball when he steps onto Ebbets Field to compete for the Brooklyn Dodgers. (Brooklyn, New York - The Jackie Robinson Story)
Thursday 24th April: Willa Cather dies. (New York - Willa Cather: The Road Is All)
Friday 25th April: President Truman inaugurates White House bowling alley. (Washington DC - Truman)
Sunday 11th May: Enzo Ferrari makes racing debut. (Piacenza, Italy - Ferrari)
Friday 6th June: Freddy Krueger born. (A Nightmare on Elm Street)
Friday 20th June: Bugsy Siegel killed by gunshot. (Bugsy)
July: An extraterrestrial spaceship lands on a farm, killing a dog and leaving behind one alien, later named "Paul." (Moorcroft, Wyoming - Paul)
July: Johnny Strabler (Marlon Brando) and the Black Rebels Motorcycle Club take over Wrightsville, CA (based on event in July 1947 in Hollister, CA) (Wrightsville, CA - The Wild One)
Sunday 6th July: John Rambo is born. (Phoenix, Arizona - Rambo: First Blood Part II)
August: The independent states of India and Pakistan were created (India - Gandhi)
Wednesday 13th August: Future Spinal Tap lead singer and rhythm guitarist David St. Hubbins is born. (Squatney, London - This is Spinal Tap)
Friday 15th August: The Partition of India. (India - Life of Pi)
September: Mathematician John Nash goes through Princeton graduate school orientation. (Princeton University - A Beautiful Mind)
Tuesday 14th October: Chuck Yeager breaks the sound barrier. (The Right Stuff)
Tuesday 14th October: Chuck Yeager breaks the sound barrier in the Bell X-1. (Muroc Army Air Field, California - The Right Stuff)
Wednesday 22nd October: Roger Marsh is born. (Escape Plan)
Monday 3rd November: Benjamin Button sees Daisy in Carousel on Broadway. (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
Saturday 13th December: Alana Kane born. (Licorice Pizza)
Friday 19th December: Stephen Altman is born. (New York, New York - Panic Room)
By this time, Benjamin L. Willard is promoted to 1st Lt. (West Berlin, Germany - Apocalypse Now)
Dahlia Iyad is born on a farm. (Near Haifa, Palestine - Black Sunday)
Dahlia Iyad's father and brother are killed by Israeli commandos. (Black Sunday)
Carl is born. (Great Britain - The Boat That Rocked)
Sonny Corleone assassinated in his car; his son Vincent Mancini born to his mistress after his death. (The Godfather)